Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Mark Knight, Bang Tango

December 30, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Dancin’ to a Different Tune With their first two releases, Live Injection , on the independent World of Hurt Records and Psycho ...

Album Review: Black Death, "Black Death"

December 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

I would figure that, with being the first all-black heavy metal band ever, some enterprising young hipster would have a done a documentary...

Album review: The Head Cat, "Walk the Walk...Talk the Talk"

December 07, 2020 1 Comment Edit

The Head Cat is Lemmy's rock n' roll sideline with Stray Cats' drummer Slim Jim Phantom and Lonesome Spur/Rockats guitarist D...

Interview: All About Eve (Julianne Regan, Andy Cousin, Marty Wilson-Piper)

December 02, 2020 Add Comment Edit

FAITH HEALERS ALL ABOUT EVE recently completed a short British tour to promote their new album, Touched By Jesus , and their 'new appr...

REVENGE RECOMMENDS "I EXECUTE JUDGEMENT ON YOU COVID-19"

December 02, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Rock has a song for every occasion and the Covid-19 outbreak is no different, as demonstrated by this incredible mash-up of metal and televa...

BOOK REVIEW: "CONFESS" – ROB HALFORD

November 30, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Rob Halford’s new autobiography shouldn’t be called Confess. The stuff that Halford allegedly “confesses” is nothing anyone will find sh...

Interview: Ian Astbury, The Cult

November 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

With internet downloads, I-Pods, and other technological breakthroughs, the attention spans of fans and the vinyl-defined parameters of ...

ALBUM REVIEW: "MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION," TAU CROSS

November 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Tau Cross is metal for people who are sick of living the fast paced urban lifestyle and move to the burbs or small towns to be surrounde...

Album Review: "Welcome to the Ball," Vicious Rumors

October 04, 2020 Add Comment Edit

It is my guess that Power Metal fans who like their Rock served up wailing, punchy, produced, and with fast-paced Thrash overtones will e...

CRUE'L TO BE KIND

October 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

From the Stargazer column (Star date: April 1992) It has been made public that Vince Neil has left Motley crue due to differences in musical...

Album Review: Vince Neil, "Exposed"

October 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

From the initial assault of Look In Her Eyes , it's plain that Vince is out to take no prisoners. In linking up with guitarist Steve St...

Interview: Janick Gers, Iron Maiden

September 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

THE METAL MONSTER PLOUGHS AHEAD BY PUTTING EGOS ON HOLD With Iron Maiden, what you see is what you get — a reassuring thought for the ...

Album Review: "Code Selfish," The Fall

September 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Despite a couple of imaginative lyrics and a few interesting samples, Code Selfish never rises above a level of turgid dullness. Wallowing...

Interview: Gary Brooker & Matthew Fisher, Procul Haram

September 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Parisian Walkways Mike Harris flies out to gay Paris to catch Procol Harum on the last date of their current European jaunt, and discovers t...

ALBUM REVIEW: "RAISE YOUR FIST AND YELL," ALICE COOPER

September 22, 2020 Add Comment Edit

I felt like a giddy 12 year old after re-buying Alice Cooper’s long forgotten, totally overlooked 1987 album Raise Your Fist and Yell , ...

Live Review: Cathedral, Shibuya Quattro, 20th April, 2011

September 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

When I interviewed Lee Dorian of Cathedral a few weeks back in the immediate aftermath of the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, he was sti...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!